F.U.'S @ San Francisco, CA 1984-08-20

 


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F.U.'s
Mabuhay Gardens
San Francisco, CA
1984-08-20 (Monday)

MYTP 15

Source: SBD > Sony D5M > Cassette Master > CD
Extraction: CD > rubyripper 0.8 (cdparanoia secure rip, cdrdoa TOC) > FLAC
Processing: Audacity (channel realign, -18db at 90hz parametric eq, channel rebalance, limiter, amplify, splits) > FLAC 8 > acxi (tagging, checksums, FLAC data)

Recorded, preserved, shared by micgram
Release processing by teetering

FLAC: 16/44.1 (2 channels)
Quality: 2/4 (12khz, good, but fixes, warts)
Time: 36:20.82
Size: 207.3 MiB
Average kb/s: 797
Tracks: 23

Setlist:
01. //Walking Tall
02. Lick My Shiny Boots
03. ?? (Don't Be A Dope)
04. Peer Police
05. Poor, Poor, Pitiful You
06. banter >
07. Young, Fast, Iranians
08. intro >
09. Rock The Nation
10. banter >
11. F.U.
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. audience, banter >
14. Promised Land
15. Unite Or Lose
16. Killer
17. audience, banter >
18. We're An American Band
19. audience, banter >
20. Tie Your Mother Down (Queen) >
21. Green Beret
22. audience, banter >
23. Do We Really Want To Hurt You?

Band:
John Sox (John Stocking) - vocals
Steve Grimes - guitar
Joe Rockhead (Wayne Maestri) - bass
Bob Furapples (Robert Hatfield) - drums

Recording notes:
* I think the soundboard had way too much bass drum in the mix, it completely dominated the audio. Even with bass drop fix, at times the kick drums still overwhelm the mix.
* At some points the recording gets slightly muffled for 10, 20 seconds, not sure what happened there.
* Long fadein on track 1, and fadeout on track 23.

Processing notes:
* Dropped 1 octave -18db at 90hz to get rid of bass boominess and bring rest of instruments back into mix.
* Manually aligned out of phase channels.
* Corrected R/L channel balance.

Notes:
* This was a 5pm curfew show. F.U.'s headlined, Stranglehold (Boston), Condemned To Death (aka C2D), and The Warlocks opened.
* Can't figure out name of track 3, "Don't be a dope".
* "I've had a better Monday night than anyone has a right to expect, so thanks a lot..."
* F.U.'s were playing around a lot, including at the Easter Front (Berkeley Aquatic Park) a few days earlier (Saturday, 18th). 
* Includes several flyers for this an the Eastern Front they just played.

* Band Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheFUsBand/
* Band discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/251801-FUs
* Bandsintown: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/1687574-the-fus
* F.U.'s wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F.U.%27s
"The F.U.’s formed as a hardcore punk band in Boston late in 1981. The band initially consisted of John Sox on bass and lead vocals, Bob Furapples on drums, and Steve Grimes on guitar. This lineup recorded a four-song demo which received airplay on the numerous college radio stations in the Boston area.
The F.U.'s started out playing fast, thrashy hardcore punk. In 1982 Wayne Maestri was recruited to take over bass guitar, and this four-piece lineup recorded tracks for the Modern Method compilation, This Is Boston, Not L.A., which also featured tracks by Gang Green, Jerry's Kids and The Freeze. A companion 7-inch EP, Unsafe At Any Speed, included another F.U.'s track.
Later the same year, F.U.'s‘ debut album, Kill For Christ, was released on X-Claim Records, featuring cover artwork by Septic Death frontman Brian 'Pushead' Schroeder [known for his work with Metallica, and Danzig], depicting Jesus with a machine gun. Their second album for X-Claim, My America, came out in 1983, and the band's final album as The F.U.'s, Do We Really Want To Hurt You? followed in 1984, on Gasatanka/Enigma. "
* About band: https://www.reverbnation.com/thefus
"...The band name was taken from a comment made by Wendy O. Williams in an interview in which she said something to the effect that "Smashing TVs is a great way to say 'F you' to society."
...
Their second album, also on X-Claim, My America, saw them labelled as right wing nationalists due to its patriotic lyrics (which were sarcastic), and artwork.
The band's final album as The F.U.'s, Do We Really Want To Hurt You? followed in 1984, on Gasatanka/Enigma. With this album, the band had begun to take a more heavy metal direction, which was taken further when the band changed name to Straw Dogs, with guitarist Steve Martin and drummer Chris "Bones" Jones added to the line-up. As Straw Dogs, the band released an EP followed by three albums. Drummer Chris Jones died tragically in a car crash the day after the debut Straw Dogs EP was released."
* John Sox originally also played bass as well as singing.

* About the Mabuhay Gardens: 
The Mabuhay Gardens (a.k.a. The Fab Mab or The Mab) was a San Francisco nightclub located at 443 Broadway (at Montgomery), on the Broadway strip of North Beach, an area best known for its striptease clubs.
...
Originally a Filipino restaurant and club owned by the late Ness Aquino, it featured many Filipino celebrities, including Amapola (a.k.a. Amapola Cabase). Aquino and Amapola also co-hosted a weekly television program, The Amapola Presents Show on KEMO TV Channel 20
...
During the late 1970s, Jerry Paulsen was the first promoter of bands to appear at the Mab on a regular basis. He booked them on Mondays and Tuesdays to begin with so he could showcase the bands that he featured in Psyclone magazine to existing record executives. The scene became so popular that he was soon booking two bands a night seven days a week. Bay Area punk and New Wave bands performed there, and it was an important touring stop for bands from beyond the San Francisco Bay Area. Among the local bands that performed regularly at the Mabuhay were The Adaptors, Avengers, Dead Kennedys, The Nuns, Crime, Dils, Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, The Mortals, new wave band Judy Garland, the Tubes and Wall of Voodoo, to name a few. After he left, Dirksen (the "pope of punk") booked The Dead Boys, Nico, The Runaways, Devo, X, The Police, SVT, The Go-Go's, Motörhead, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Patti Smith, The Jim Carroll Band, REM and others. Comedians such as Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams also made early appearances at the venue."
* San Francisco renamed that small alley next to the On Broadway/Mabuhay "Dirk Dirksen Place" to honor Dirk's contributions to the cultural heritage of San Francisco. The alley next to City Lights Books (founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, at 261 Columbus, right by Broadway, a few blocks from the Mab... and somewhere the more literate people in the scene would have spent time) was similarly renamed Kerouac Alley to honor the famous beat writer. It was originally named Rowland Ave but Kathy Peck of the band Contractions and  founder of H.E.A.R. (Hearing Education & Awareness for Rockers) spearheaded a movement to get the name changed to dirk dirksen Place.
* Dirk and his DMP production company stopped doing shows at the On Broadway, upstairs from the Mabuhay, 1984-06-16, and as far as I know, did not do more shows downstairs at the Mab after that, though other promoters, including Ness Aquino I believe, kept doing shows at both venues for a while longer.
* To give you an idea of how much times have changed since then, the 433 Broadway building was recently listed at around $10,000,000!!!

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About Michael Young and the MYTP:

Michael: "I lived in the bay area 1980-92. Being a Deadhead I had a lot of friends who recorded shows, so when I got a nice Sony D5M (in 83, I think it was) I would bring it with me to the Mabuhay Gardens and On Broadway and other places as well. I would ask the sound man if I could plug in and they usually said yes. I did this mostly in 1984 a few in 85. My first punk show was in my hometown of Philadelphia at a place called the Hot Club in 1978. I was hooked on the high energy and the fun of slamming around... I think my first SF hardcore punk show was Flipper at Kezar Pavilion in May of '81. I might have seen some other bands around town before that but that one sticks out for sure."
[teetering: I was also at that Kezar TG/Flipper show. Flipper was great that night.]

TECH:
Michael used a Sony D5M portable cassette recorder, plugged into the soundboard outs, to record most of these shows. This was for the time a very expensive unit, with some advanced features, which probably accounts for why these recordings are so good in general.

* D5M manual: https://transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/02/om.tcd5m.pdf
* About D5M: https://transom.org/2005/sony-tc-d5m/
All metal, reliable, simple, and fixable, it runs on two D-cells

* More on the D5M: https://www.cassettedeck.org/sony/tc-d5m
This Sony TC-D5M is a stereo cassette deck with Dolby B noise reduction, it was first sold by Sony in 1979 with a recommended retail price of USD $680 [about $2500 in today's dollars] and discontinued a year later.
The main features of the Sony TC-D5M are: 2 heads, mechanical 3 digit tape counter, manual tape type selection and capable of handling normal, chrome, ferro-chrome and metal tapes, belt driven single-capstan transport.
Typical of this deck is the 70's top loading layout with the cassette compartiment located on the left side of the deck. Tape eject is operated mechanically and the cassette needs to be placed with the side to be played facing forward in the cassette well.
Level meters used on the TC-D5M are analog needle VU reading meters. Mechanical transport controls for reliable TC-D5M transport function selection.
The Dolby-B system reduces tape hiss on tapes recorded on the TC-D5M by as much as 10 dB at the highest frequencies. The 19kHz multiplex pilot slgnal present in FM stereo broadcasts can cause false triggering of the noise reduction system. The switchable MPX filter of the TC-D5M filters out the pilot signal, and assuring proper Dolby processing of FM stereo programs.
To make live recordings this deck has 2 microphone inputs to connect microphones with a jack connector.

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 - teetering